A JUST TRANSITION: EUROPE'S RESPONSABILITY TO ITS PEOPLE ANDE THE WORLD

 

To Forum of Catholic Inspired NGOs participants, with the invitation to spread in your own networks (great opportunity: instantaneous translation live in English, español, italiano, português, polski)

 

Dear Forum of Catholic Inspired NGOs participants,

 in the light of the email on "commencement of Forum 2020 - 2022 activities" just received from Geoffrey Strickland on behalf of the Forum Committee and the "focus upon the pandemic so as to move forward in mutual support and synergistic thinking", We invite you to attend the next Season of Creation Webinar “A Just Transition: Europe’s Responsibility to its People and to the World”, hosted by GCCM and CIDSE, that will be held on 24^th September and to spread the news in your network. (More info below; an invitation text is available here ). The webinar will be in English and it will be simultaneously translated in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, or Polish. 

This webinar will explore how the coronavirus crisis and the environmental crisis are related, and how regional approaches to a just transition to integral ecology could be developed. It will contribute to informing, connecting and mobilising people of goodwill in relation to a Just Transition in Europe, and importantly - to Europe’s responsibilities for a Just Transition globally. On the occasion of the Season of Creation, as a time for reflection, prayer and action, it will contribute to create an understanding of engagement in public affairs as an answer to Pope Francis call to hear ‘the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’.

Speakers will include Sr Alessandra Smerilli, economist and coordinator of the Vatican’s Commission for Covid-19’s Economics Task Force, member of the Scientific Committee and organizer of the Catholic Italian Social Weeks; 

Marcin Kędzierski, EU and Poland expert at the Jagiellonian Club, an independent think tank in Poland; 

Lydia Lehlogonolo Machaka, CIDSE Climate Justice & Energy officer; 

Edwin Mumbere, Coordinator at Centre for Citizens Conserving and fossil fuel activist in Uganda

 

8:00 Quito / 9:00 NYC / 10:00 São Paulo / 14:00 UK / 15:00 Rome / 16:00 Nairobi

• Register here to attend in English or receive interpretation in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, or Polish.
• Watch the live stream here in English only.

Info about the Season of Creation Webinar “A Just Transition: Europe’s Responsibility to its People and to the World”

For more info about the Season of Creation

• Website of the Season of Creation (available in EN, ES, FR, IT, PL, PT)
• Link to register events
• Link to the Celebration Guide
• Link to the Catholic page with resources

 

Unesco NGO - EDUCATION THIS WEEK

EDUCATION THIS WEEK (29 June – 3 July 2020)

FIRST RATIFICATION OF THE GLOBAL CONVENTION

Dear colleagues, The Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualification regarding Higher Education, adopted in November 2019, received its first ratification from Norway on 8 June 2020.  As the first United Nations treaty on higher education with a global scope, the Global Convention needs 20 ratifications to enter into force and become operational. You can have a look at the Global Convention in the 6 languages.

UPCOMING COVID-19 EDUCATION WEBINARS

·         Side event at 2020 High-level Political Forum (HLPF) “Education post-COVID-19”, to be organized on 9 July from 2pm - 3 pm (CET)  / 8 am – 9am EST by UNESCO and the SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee, with support from the Group of Friends for Education and Lifelong Learning. Click here to register.

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FORUM of Catholic Inspired NGOs

2017 Forum

Aggiungi didascalia

The Third Forum of Catholic Inspired Organizations was held in Rome from 11 – 13 December 2017. In considering the theme of Catholic Inspired Organizations as Promoters of Humanity, more than 100 organizations gathered to consider the importance of ongoing societal changes with regard to their respective commitments and various fields of expertise. The overall aim of the meeting was to identify key leads for the Forum network, in the hope that these then serve as building blocks for longer term collaboration in the various thematic groups in their efforts toward developing of a social observatory from a Catholic inspired perspective.  To better inform on the General aims and objectives of this initiative, the Committee presented the 2017 Founding Document.
 Professor John Lydon (WUCT treasurer) participated in representing the UMEC-WUCT.

The creation of a legal entity for the Forum was announced, from which basis the Forum Secretariat will commence work. Please see the relevant details below for more information:

Greeting of the Holy Father

Program

Synthesis of 2017 Discussion (coming soon)

https://foruminternational.org/